EAGER: Sensors in a Shoebox: Engaging Detroiters in Analyzing and Meeting Community Needs

EAGER：鞋盒中的传感器：让底特律人参与分析和满足社区需求

基本信息

批准号：
1637232
负责人：
Jerome Lynch
金额：
$ 22.5万
依托单位：
Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-08-15 至 2019-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1637232&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
EAGER Sensors Shoebox Engaging Detroiters

项目摘要

The Sensors in a Shoebox project focuses on empowering urban citizens with the tools and methods necessary to observe and analyze the physical, social, and natural systems that affect their communities for improved community-based decision making. The project creates an affordable and ruggedized sensor kit that consists of solar-powered wireless sensors with Internet connectivity that can be distributed to communities to sense environmental parameters, vibrations, motion, among other parameters. Data is transmitted from community-deployed sensor kits to the cloud where sensor data is stored and managed. The community directly accesses their data from a web portal offering a suite of user-friendly analytical tools that citizens could use to extract community-relevant information from raw sensor data. Some envisioned community uses of the Sensors in a Shoebox platform include but not limited to: measuring neighborhood air quality, tracking the usage of public spaces, and observing residents' mobility choices (walking, biking, and motorized transport). This project will provide a scientific and technological foundation to the extension of cyber-physical systems to explicitly include humans. So called cyber-physical-social systems, these human-in-the-loop systems have the potential to transform a variety of commercial application including those in transportation, building energy management, among others. The project engages the communities of Detroit, a city beginning to go through transformation after decades of dramatic population declines. Specifically, the project recruits middle- and high school students from Detroit public charter schools to serve at the front lines of the system design and deployment. In doing so, the team will closely study and rigorously assess the experiences of urban youth using the system. In particular, advancement of STEM knowledge and youth's notions of being connected citizens will be qualitatively and quantitatively assessed.

鞋盒项目中的传感器着重于赋予城市公民的能力，以观察和分析影响其社区以改善基于社区决策的社区所必需的工具和方法。该项目创建了一个负担得起且坚固的传感器套件，该套件由带有互联网连接的太阳能无线传感器组成，可以分配给社区，以感知环境参数，振动，运动等。数据将从社区部署的传感器套件传输到存储和管理传感器数据的云。社区直接从Web门户网站访问他们的数据，提供一套用户友好的分析工具，公民可以用这些工具从原始传感器数据中提取与社区相关的信息。一些设想的鞋盒平台中传感器的社区用途包括但不限于：测量邻里空气质量，跟踪公共空间的使用以及观察居民的行动能力选择（步行，骑自行车和机动运输）。该项目将为扩展网络物理系统的扩展为明确包括人类提供科学和技术基础。所谓的网络物理 - 社会系统，这些人类在环境系统中有可能改变各种商业应用，包括运输，建筑能源管理等。该项目吸引了底特律社区，底特律社区经过数十年的戏剧性人口下降后开始经历转型。具体而言，该项目招募了来自底特律公立特许学校的中学和高中学生，以在系统设计和部署的前线工作。这样一来，团队将使用该系统仔细研究和严格评估城市青年的经历。特别是，STEM知识和青年人与建立联系的公民的概念的发展将进行定性和定量评估。